Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Giants are 4-0 this season in elimination games, and like a roach that can't be killed, they keep surviving and living to play another day. And so we Dodgers fans might as well accept it now, that the Tigers will be playing the Giants in the World Series. Cardinals fans, get ready to be disappointed, tonight and tomorrow.

Just look at the facts:

Like in the NLDS, the Giants again faced a three-game hole in their series. But unlike the NLDS, the last two games are at home in their friendly short-porch confines. And they've already proven they could win three straight in Cincinnati; now that they've batted St. Louis back in Game 5, Games 6 and 7 at Phone Park should be a cakewalk.

How else to explain the Game 5 performance of Barry Zito, whose fastball is three seasons removed from any zip, yet flummoxed the red-hot Cardinals and stopped their two-game roll? Zito, who wasn't even good enough to make the Giants' 2010 postseason roster, stumbles into the 2012 playoffs and notches a postseason victory? The baseball gods are clearly smiling on the Giants.

Orange and black colors are a putrid combination normally, but one has to admit that as we get closer to Halloween, this combination becomes slightly more commonplace and thus a bit less offensive to the eye.

Ryan Vogelsong, Game 2 NLCS winner, takes the mound for Game 6. And then they've got their ace, Matt Cain, going in Game 7. That's nails.

Meanwhile, Chris Carpenter takes the mound for the Cards tonight. Carp lasted a pathetic four innings in Game 2, yielding five runs (two earned, with unearned runs due in part to his throwing error), and took the loss. He'll be toast tonight.

SF is 62-36 at night this year; St Louis is a mediocre 54-50 at night.

Winning tonight would give the Giants all the momentum for Game 7, by the way. Which I will remind you is at home.

The Cardinals didn't get into town until Saturday afternoon, almost 12 hours after the Giants arrived in California. Commentators will always tell you how travel has such an impact on athletes' ability to play effectively. The Cardinals will be wiped.

And in kind, the San Francisco crowd will be fired up, what with the 49ers having already won this week, Stanford having dominated Cal in the Big Game, and nothing else to compete with this marquee matchup. Concession stands will be stocked with extra chardonnay.

Look, I've already come to terms with it. San Francisco is rolling on, to its second World Series in three years. This is an inevitability, and there's not a damn thing we Dodgers fans can do about it.

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I got a really sick feeling in my tummy watching the last game. This little, tiny voice crept into my brain and said "Oh no, not again". But I REFUSE to buy into it. The Redbirds are still one up. Lets focus on that everyone. And maybe pray alot.

I just HATE this. There's enough wrong in the world without these orange and black grunts winning. We need to prepare for a game 7 and never give up. Remember...The enemy of my enemy is my friend. (Was that from a Godfather movie?) Anyway, maybe we need to start feeling the love for these stupid Cardinals. I know it's hard, but fake it.

Well Spanky, I'm hitting the wine. I can't tell you all how much this disgusts my very sensitive self. I have HATED the gnats since the summer of '69 when I started following our Boys in Blue as an innocent 10 year old. I don't follow the American League very closley. Lets take a poll for my ignorance...Can the Tigers beat the hated ones???

So let me get this right, I cheer for the cards to lose for the past two years including last and this post season and everyday in Sept and finally I need them to win and NOW they are going to choke???

Try living in Napa. You've never seen so many new orange/black t-shirts, jerseys, caps etc. And you've never seen so many brand new fans in any sport. giants "fans" are a running joke to those of us in blue who are unfortunate enough to be surrounded by these fucking zombies. Go Tigers.